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Welcome to the Young Pioneer Tours Blog, the place where we we keep you informed about everything YPT, from current tours, to future tours and a whole lot of eclectic stuff in between.
YPT first started blogging in 2008 and are considered the best North Korean Travel blog that there is.
But, as Young Pioneer Tours have expanded our locations, so have we expanded our blog. Now we have one of the best travel blogs in the world!
And while most of our content is about the numerous destinations we go, including travel guides and what to pack, we also delve into more serious subjects such as the safety of certain destinations, as well as how LGTBQ+ friendly the places we visit are.
While the vast majority of our content is produced in-house, we are always on the look-out for guest bloggers and writers. Want to write for us? Then simply get in touch.
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Saudi Arabia Photoblog
28 May 2018 / by Gareth Johnson
Saudi Arabia in photos YPT recently completed our first ever group tour of Saudi Arabia. See here for an account of how it went and see below for a glimpse of the Kingdom for yourself! Read about our first ever journey into Saudi Arabia here, and conta …
Tuvalu – the 3rd Least Visited Country in the World
28 May 2018 / by Gareth Johnson
Following on from our first ever Least Visited Countries tour for New Year’s Eve 2017, which we spent on the least visited country in the world – Nauru – YPT is going even further for 2018. Our new tour follows on from the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Kiri …
YPT’s All Koreas Tour: Why this is the ultimate North Korean experience
25 May 2018 / by Gareth Johnson
For our All Koreas tours in 2018, our Part 1 tour starts with a Borderlands road trip of a lifetime. Although this tour is entirely in China, we take you through all the border towns, where North Koreans, Chinese Koreans and even South Koreans mingle f …
What Is There To Do In Pyongyang, North Korea?
25 May 2018 / by Nicolas Platt
Pyongyang is usually people’s first stop when they come to visit North Korea. With our short ultra budget tours being some of our most popular ones, many tourists come and expect to be able to catch the whole city in just a day, have their fill, and he …
Top 5 awesome North Korean souvenirs
25 May 2018 / by Rowan Beard
Whenever we go abroad, we’ll always have family and friends eagerly awaiting their souvenirs upon return – or we just want to buy some keepsakes for our own benefit. Whether it’s stamps or fridge magnets that are your thing, North Korea is no exception …
YPT Adventure Into Oman
15 May 2018 / by Gareth Johnson
We were a little sceptical about a tour to Oman. Is Oman really a YPT destination? It all started out as a little prelude to our Socotra (Yemen) tour. We would start in Oman, where YPT had outrageously hired a boat for 70 adventurous souls to sail thro …
A guide to the Colombian Civil War
15 May 2018 / by Gareth Johnson
The Colombian civil war, which to date is not only the longest-running civil war in South America, but amazingly in the whole world mostly came to a partial end with the historic peace process between the government, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces …
DPRK Changes Timezone and What it Means For Our Tours
11 May 2018 / by Gareth Johnson
Following the success of the summit between North Korea’s Leader Marshall Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in at the friendship house on the South side of the DMZ (de-militarized zone), North Korea moved their clocks forward by 30 …
Explaining the Mass Games to hit Pyongyang in 2020
10 May 2018 / by Alistair Riddell
As you may have heard, the world-famous Mass Games are confirmed to return to Pyongyang for a third straight year, returning to the DPRK’s largest stadium, the 150,000 capacity May Day Stadium in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Liberation Day t …
